Friday January 17 Eng. 10

Today's Objectives

RI.10.2 Determine a central idea of a text; provide an objective summary.
RI.10.4 Analyze the impact of word choice on meaning and tone.
RI.10.6 Determine an author's purpose in a text and analyze how an author uses rhetoric to advance that purpose.

Who was Nelson Mandela?

Watch the video on Nelson Mandela.

The Language of Freedom

• Read and annotate the excerpt from Mandela's autobiography, Long Walk to Freedom.
• As you annotate, underline EVERY instance of the words "free" or "freedom."
• Highlight a sentence with "free" or "freedom" in it that you find the most impactful. Make it a sentence that you think really stands out.
• In a circle, each student reads his/her highlighted sentence. What words and ideas did we hear again and again? Why?

Writing

On a half sheet of paper, summarize this excerpt in exactly TWO sentences.